1846 Grenada tornado

Tornado in Mississippi, USA File:Temporary tornado.svg 100 May 7, 1846 F5 F5 tornado 260+ mph 21 60 $65,000 (1846 USD)$US 65000 1846 (2025 USD) list of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks The 1846 Grenada tornado was a tornado that struck Grenada, Mississippi, on May 7, 1846. The tornado killed 21 people, injured 60, and destroyed 60 or 70 buildings in the southern half of Grenada, Yalobusha County, MississippiGrenada County, Mississippi was not established until 1870. in the United States.Stokes 1929 871846-05-23 Killer Tornado Grenada, MS 1846 2 The Evening Post https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-post-killer-tornado-grenada/4436439/ 2023-12-201846-06-20 1846 Tornado Grenada, Mississippi. Attention to the last paragraph. - Tom Malmay 1 Boon's Lick Times https://www.newspapers.com/article/boons-lick-times-1846-tornado-grenada/1744752/ 2023-12-20 Other accounts had it that 112 buildings were destroyed,Preble 1847 37–38 including 17 homes.WPA Grenada County 1938 26 Property damage was estimated at $65,000The Baptist 30 May 1846, page 9 https://www.newspapers.com/image/586534506/ 2023-12-22 Newspapers.com en to 80000 1846.Preble 1847 37–38 According to the Mississippi Democrat of Carrollton, Mississippi, "When the tornado passed through Grenada it must have been at least 600 yards from one extreme to the other; but about the centre and 50 yards each way therefrom, the principal damage was done."WPA Grenada County 1938 29 According to the New Orleans Picayune, "On the outside of a letter to a friend, is written the words, 'Grenada is in ruins, and many of her inhabitants are destroyed; names cannot be given, or numbers set down."Smith Robert https://books.google.com/books?id=MaEOAAAAQAAJ&q=Grenada&pg=PP9 The Friend 1846 The Friend. 291 en The tornado struck at about 2:30 p.m.WPA Grenada County 1938 26 Both schools in the town were in session at the time the hurricane struck, and both were destroyed.Stokes 1929 90 The teacher of the girls' school was killed, her body was found across the river in a tree.Stokes 1929 90 The force of the tornado "shattered" the logs of the cabin that housed the girls' school.Stokes 1929 90 The teacher of the boys' school survived but was seriously injured.Stokes 1929 90 The newly built Baptist church was leveled.Stokes 1929 89 According to a scrapbooked clipping of a news article entitled "The Great Hurricane," written by Aaron Davis, the tornado approached the town from the west.Stokes 1929 88 The same tornado later continued northward into Maury County, Tennessee, where there were no casualties but three farms were damaged.Dwight Theodore https://books.google.com/books?id=IcMRAAAAYAAJ&dq=1846+Grenada+tornado&pg=PA298 American Penny Magazine, and Family Newspaper 1846 T. Dwight 298 en See also 1840 Natchez tornado Notes References Sources yes Thomas Preble The Voice of God : or an account of the unparalleled fires, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes commencing with 1845 1847 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088056379?urlappend=%3Bseq=44 HathiTrust Albany, New York Printed by Joel Munsell 2027/hvd.32044088056379?urlappend=%3Bseq=44 en Stokes Rebecca Martin History of Grenada (1830–1880) 1929 Master's 1972 University of Mississippi Oxford, Mississippi https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1972 Various https://www.mlc.lib.ms.us/wp-content/uploads/Digitized%20Microfilms/Grenada%20County.pdf 1938 STATE WIDE HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT (Susie V. Powell, State Supervisor) WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION for MISSISSIPPI Source Material for Mississippi History: Grenada County, Vol. XXII Mississippi Library Commission WPA Grenada County 1938 Category:1846 natural disasters 1846-05-7 Category:1846 in Mississippi Category:Meteorological events in 1846 1846-05-07 Category:History of Yalobusha County, Mississippi Category:May 1846 1846-05-07 1846-05-07